Being a baby, which is the youngest stage of life, they tend to wonder about the world more than anyone else. They don’t have any experience in life and so as they grow up, they tend to get used to the world, or take the world for granted or be too busy being caught up with their own personal problems or work and not wonder about the world. This is what I think what Albert Knox stated means. Do I agree with him?
I agree that we often lose the ability or desire to wonder about the world because we grow older due to many reasons. From the text, I think it’s really true that babies have the faculty of wonder and when you’re a grown up, “You’ve just grown so used to the world that nothing surprises you anymore.” This is when we lose the ability to wonder. However, it argues that even when we grow older, according to Sophie’s World, there are things that will still cause us to wonder. Not everything can be solved later on in your life by discussion. If they’re not solved by discussion, they’ll be left to the imagination of the individuals. It is also possible that we never get to the bottom of problems although there’s a solution to it. Therefore, it makes us wonder too.
From personal experience, I can say that right now, being a teenager there’s no time for us to wonder about the world. All the things that we are now dealing with, school, family, work, and people around us keeps us busy that we don’t even have the time to wonder about why we’re alive, how the universe is created, who created god or anything like that. One personal example will be during exam periods. There is basically no time to wonder about anything other than revisions. I also think that as I grow older maybe even when I’m a parent, there will be less time to wonder as well, other than problems that might come across in life. For example, worrying about our kids, works, value of income, quality of living, and how everything is around us. This is why I agree with Albert Knox that “It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder.”
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I completely agree with you when you say that as we get older, our minds are increasingly occupied by our daily activities. However, I think everyone still has their ability to wonder, chucked away somewhere at the back of their minds.. but the decision is theirs, whether or not to take out time and effort to search for answers. Stress and worry do indeed preoccupy our minds, but I don't think those feelings strip us from the ability to wonder.
One thing I would agree with from what you stated is that our minds become increasingly occupied with daily activities and routines. However, I don't agree with your overall argument that people lose their ability to wonder as they grow older.
Yes, younger people do have more time and space to wonder about things. "What is this?", "Why do we eat these things?" However, it is not as if we have completely lost our ability to wonder about things. Older people around us, they ask questions as to why they are here or what they are doing.
I believe that as long as we keep our minds open, we will not lose the ability to wonder.
I agree with the point that we become too preoccupied by current affairs to have the time to wonder about seemingly insignificant questions about the world.
However we never do absolutely "lose the ability to wonder" as we do wonder about the choices we make in our everyday lives. This is also illustrated in the family scene when the father flies and the mother is stupefied. This shows that she has wondered why her husband is acting in such a peculiar manner. She cannot find a suitable reason and so, reacts the only way she can -in shock.
You said "that we often lose the ability or desire to wonder about the world because we grow older due to many reasons." I agree with you because as we grow up, we have other things to think about, such as work.
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